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angch commented on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server disco.cloud/blog/how-idea... · Posted by u/jryio

akerl_ · 2 months ago

Why?

angch · 2 months ago

Like a highway brake failure ramp, you have room for handling failures gentler. So services don't just get outright killed. If you monitor your swap usage, any usage of swap gives you early warning that your services require more memory already.

Gives you some time to upgrade, or tune services before it goes ka-boom.

angch commented on Show HN: Autism Simulator autism-simulator.vercel.a... · Posted by u/joshcsimmons

angch · 3 months ago

If there isn't a way to get pass more than a few days, regardless of any choices made, the one lesson simulator is giving is "there's no way an autistic developer can last a few days without burning out". Or from a coworker's perspective: "my coworker is struggling, but there's nothing I can do to prevent burn out in my coworker".

Perhaps tune the choices, and the effects to have a net neutral bonus and penalties to have a longer gameplay loop. Having random weights to the actions might work as well.

angch commented on WordPress retaliation impacts community lwn.net/SubscriberLink/99... · Posted by u/chmaynard

x3n0ph3n3 · a year ago

> even that response to DHH

Can you link to what you're referring?

angch · a year ago

https://ma.tt/2024/10/on-dhh/

angch commented on WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics windirstat.net/... · Posted by u/whereistimbo

LeoPanthera · 2 years ago

I like "ncdu", a TUI equivalent for Unixy systems.

Although I learned the hard way that if you run it on a Mac home folder, and have iCloud's "optimize Mac storage" turned on, macOS will suddenly try to download literally everything in your iCloud storage to try to count the size of it, probably filling your disk. Oops.

angch · 2 years ago

There's also "diskonaut", a TUI which displays the output like the treemap of WinDirStat. Bonus is that the display is incremental and updates as it scans everything, so you don't need to wait for the complete scan to see how everything looks like.

Written in Rust, and it's a `cargo install diskonaut` away if you have the rust toolchain installed.

angch commented on Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs tuta.com/blog/best-privat... · Posted by u/grammers

mariusmg · 2 years ago

Yeah, you're switching browsers not 3D modelling software.

It's easy people. Switch to Firefox today.

angch · 2 years ago

For my daily use, Firefox needs built-in passkey support. Can't switch for all uses yet. In the meantime, I'm running both.

angch commented on "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4 andrealyip.com/a-young-la... · Posted by u/cl42

art-not · 2 years ago

Do you happen to know what book/story?

angch · 2 years ago

It's from Diamond Age, alluding to a character (YT) that was from Snow Crash.

angch commented on RustRover – A standalone Rust IDE blog.jetbrains.com/rust/2... · Posted by u/margor

_nalply · 2 years ago

Long ago, perhaps ten or more years, I used IntelliJ. It is a good IDE. Then last year I tried CLion with the Rust plugin. Still good. Not everything is smooth but that's not their fault. One example: it is frustrating to display values even if they implement Debug. The problem is that the debugger did not yet understand Rust's Debug. I was satisfied anyway.

After a year I didn't extend the license, however.

You see, I am mostly retired and program just for fun. And CLion does not do enough because I also write TypeScript, PHP, shell scripts, and even C sometimes. CLion is good for C, but now, I don't know if RustRover will cover C.

Now I switched to helix. Thirty years ago I learnt Emacs and later jed. You could say I am the pinky finger guy. In my fifties I decided to try something completely different, a modal editor. It took more than a year to slowly learn tricks. If programming were my job I wouldn't do that. I would stick to vscode or just Visual Studio or to a JetBrains product, because I know them and can work efficiently. With helix I did not yet reach this efficiency. But being retired it is more about fun instead of efficiency. helix is just more fun than these corporate offerings. Last week I switched Caps Lock and Esc and even created tap keybindings for the modifier keys (right tap-iso = open bracket, right tap-meta = close bracket for example). I am still in the process to adapt to the new keybindings but it makes me smile.

One caveat: when in a browser text input field, I sometimes hit the i key before typing. Anyone know this? I realized, I have to shift the mental model that browser text input fields are alreay and permanently in insert mode.

This said, I have a fond spot for JetBrains even if I left them.

angch · 2 years ago

Whoa, another (ex?) jed user in the wild. I still install it on new servers, and that was how other admins know if I was ever there. Smaller and faster than installing emacs.

angch commented on Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models bellard.org/ts_server/ts_... · Posted by u/Deeg9rie9usi

nl · 2 years ago

The link between compression and intelligence is a popular theory. Indeed the linked work here came out of the Hutter Prize:

> The goal of the Hutter Prize is to encourage research in artificial intelligence (AI). The organizers believe that text compression and AI are equivalent problems. Hutter proved that the optimal behavior of a goal-seeking agent in an unknown but computable environment is to guess at each step that the environment is probably controlled by one of the shortest programs consistent with all interaction so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter_Prize

angch · 2 years ago

NNCP (Bellard's prelude to ts_zip, using similar techniques) is not qualified for Hutter Prize, btw, because hardware and speed limitations specified by Hutter Prize.

"Must run in ≲50 hours using a single CPU core and <10GB RAM and <100GB HDD on our test machine." Which is an Intel Core i7-620M

angch commented on Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration github.com/ggerganov/llam... · Posted by u/gzer0

rektide · 3 years ago

Such a pity no one else can compete here presently. Would that others be able to gain a position where their software made them competitive on the free market.

angch · 3 years ago

There's Fabrice Bellard's textsynth server. https://bellard.org/ts_server/

No open source though.

angch commented on The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives github.com/Kneesnap/onstr... · Posted by u/WhiteDawn

crazygringo · 3 years ago

Wow, this part makes my blood boil, emphasis mine:

> This issue doesn't affect tapes written with the ADR-50 drive, but all the tapes I have tested written with the OnStream SC-50 do NOT restore from tape unless the PC which wrote the tape is the PC which restores the tape. This is because the PC which writes the tape stores a catalog of tape information such as tape file listing locally, which the ARCserve is supposed to be able to restore without the catalog because it's something which only the PC which wrote the backup has, defeating the purpose of a backup.

Holy crap. A tape backup solution that doesn't allow the tape to be read by any other PC? That's madness.

Companies do shitty things and programmers write bad code, but this one really takes the prize. I can only imagine someone inexperienced wrote the code, nobody ever did code review, and then the company only ever tested reading tapes from the same computer that wrote them, because it never occured to them to do otherwise?

But yikes.

angch · 3 years ago

I guess that's why the .zip format chucks its catalog index at the end of the archive. But it's still unnatural to use in a streaming format like tapes though.